The Polychaetous Annelids of the Marshall Islands

Donald J. Reish1, Kevin Mackay2

1 Department of Biology, California State College, 90804, Long Beach, United States; 2 

Corresponding author(s): Donald J. Reish

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Reish D J (2023): The Polychaetous Annelids of the Marshall Islands. v1.1. Southwestern Pacific Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) Node. Dataset/Occurrence. https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=annelids_marshalls&v=1.1

Abstract

This dataset is from a paper by Donald J. Reish (1968) on the polychaetous annelids of the Marshall Islands.
This report is based upon collections made by the author at Eniwetok, Bikini, and Majuro atolls during the summers of 1956 and 1957. In addition, previous accounts of the polychaetes from the Marshall Islands, largely those reported by Hartman (1954), are incorporated in this study. The object of the field investigations was to prepare a reference collection of polychaetes for the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory.
Various names have been employed in the literature for the various islands of Eniwetok Atoll. The names employed by Dawson (1957) and by the Eniwetok Marine Biological Laboratory have been followed. Hartman (1954) used the same names for those of the islands from which she made collections, with two exceptions - Rujoru and Japtan which she called Rujiyoru and Munit.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

General description

Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Data published through GBIF: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/resource?r=annelids_marshalls

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Polychaetous annelids
Taxonomic ranks
Class: Polychaeta

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Marshall Islands
Coordinates: 7°0'0''N and 12°0'0''N Latitude; 162°0'0''E and 172°0'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: January 1, 1946 - December 31, 1958

Methods

Method step description: The collecting procedure was similar at all islands. Transects were made of both the ocean and lagoon sides of the islands during low tide. Collections were made at the high tide, mid-tide, low tide, and surge zones. These collections consisted of individual specimens of polychaetes, algal clumps, sand, and pieces of corals, old coral heads, coralline algae, and of the coral reef itself. Generally, one litre of material from each ecological niche at a site was preserved with formaldehyde in the field. The material was washed and sorted in the laboratory under a dissecting microscope. Subtidal collections of sand or pieces of coral were taken by swimming in depths of five meters or less.
Study extent description: Marshall Islands
Sampling description: Intertidal and subtidal sampling

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive The Polychaetous Annelids of the Marshall Islands
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://nzobisipt.niwa.co.nz/archive.do?r=annelids_marshalls
Publication date of data: 2023-02-09
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2023-02-08
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Reish, Donald J. 1968. The Polychaetous Annelids of the Marshall Islands. Pacific science 22(2), 208–231.